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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 4511948, member: 98035&quot;]IMO, the ethical thing to do is to point your buyer to a reputable source. Taking a cut of the sale is for your hand in making the right selection at the right price. I don&#039;t mean any offense, but as a novice wholly unfamiliar with the ancient coin market and the factors that play in pricing them, your service is no different than your buyer simply going to VCoins and filtering silver coins to the $100-150 price range. I&#039;m not a finance guy, and if a friend came to me looking for stock advice, I wouldn&#039;t expect a fee for going onto a finance forum and asking them how to best spend my friend&#039;s money.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, I am still happy to offer some ideas:</p><p><br /></p><p>- You can buy a &quot;problem&quot; (posthumous) Alexander the Great tetradrachm for the upper end of that price range. Posthumous issues go for about $250-300 for problem-free VF, and lifetime issues go for more than that.</p><p>- I&#039;ve seen Ptolemaic and Seleucid common tetradrachms sell for not much more than $100.</p><p>- If billon is acceptable, Nero&#039;s Alexandrian tetradrachms are common and affordable, and the portrait is usually recognizable as such (Provincials often don&#039;t look like the imperial portraits of the emperor).</p><p>- Roman antoninianii of Caracalla through the beginning of Valerian&#039;s reign are roughly quarter-sized. A good one to look into would be Caracalla or Elagabalus (both very colorful emperors), or a Philip I issue struck for Rome&#039;s 1000th birthday:</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=philip+antoninianus+wolf&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;order=0&amp;currency=usd&amp;company=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=philip+antoninianus+wolf&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;order=0&amp;currency=usd&amp;company=" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=philip+antoninianus+wolf&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;order=0&amp;currency=usd&amp;company=</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The thing about ancient coins is that a lot of them are smaller than you&#039;d think they would be. Silver had a lot more buying power before Spain discovered literal boat-loads of it in South America. Silver drachms and denarii are mostly about dime or nickel-sized, and were the standard &quot;big&quot; denomination for daily transactions most ancient empires.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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